Studies of workers engaged in patterns of long working hours increasingly draw on working-
time preference data from large-scale surveys, in particular data on the 'match'or …

The concept of work-life balance derives from the vision that professional life and personal
life are two elements that balance each other synergistically in the development of an …

First Published in 2007. Lee, McCann and Messenger trace the theoretical background of
the concept of working time before examining recent trends in working time laws in …

Across welfare societies we have seen the emergence of policies and norms for work-life
balance alongside rising expectations among working parents to be able to participate in …

Working time flexibility comprises a wide variety of arrangements, from part-time, overtime, to
long-term leaves. Theoretical approaches to grou** these arrangements have been …

European policy and discourse create crosscurrents for fathers: the promotion of work-family
balance (WFB) and more involved fathering versus work-focused competitiveness and …

Work intensity is of central importance for organisational performance, as well as workers'
health and well‐being, yet its determinants at the workplace‐level remain underresearched …

This article examines the patterns of labour market integration over the life course of men
and women in seven European countries. We select a range of household categories …

This report:-Assesses the current employment conditions of part-time workers in comparison
with those of comparable full-time workers across a range of countries.-Investigates the …

Work–life balance (hereafter WLB) is a discursive refrain in European public debate that
reflects goals for a more productive workforce: that women and men should be able to be …